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Be it known that I, E. S. TORREY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvementin Weather-Strip, for buildings, 8:0.; and I do hereby ldescribe and ascertain my said invention, referring tov the accompanying drawing, which forms apart thereof', in which- Figure 1 is a drawing of a plain Weather-strip.

Figure 2 a weather-strip with a moulding.

I have found in my practical experience with the ordinary wooden mouldings combined with soft India rubber, and forming weather-strips, that they were not adapted to every contingency that arises; for instance,

`they could not be applied to circular and other curved door-heads. My present improvement is intended t0 obviato this litliculty and produce an article that can be applied to curved as well as straight joints. The

construction. is as follows: I take a thin strip of soft India rubber or guttapercha, and place it between two strips of hard or semi-hard rubber, &c., and cement them all together, a portionof` the soft rubber projecting 'beyond the hard, as is clearly seen in the drawing, wherev a is the soft rubber, b is the'hard rubber. This in iig. 1 is a plain strip, but in fig. 2 it is formed into amoulding, which may be varied in its configuration indenitely. A weather-strip thus formed can be bent into any desired curve to fit the line of the joint it is to cover and protect, a. thing impossible with the rigid wooden strips heretofore employed.

The weather-strip thus made is applicable in all situations, and it can be rolled for transportation and packed in boxes, whichcannot be done with the long wooden strips heretofore used. It is obvious that the soft rubber can be placed at any angle or position relatively to the hard desired.

Having thus fully described'my improved weather-strip, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i The combination of a. strip of' soft India rubber, or its equivalent, with a strip or moulding of hard rubber, or its equivalent, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

i E. S. TORREY. Witnesses:

J.'s J. GREENoUeH,' A. WILSON. 

